J USU may see rise in tuition if budget is cut Reporting: Annabel Grubb 'Life Writer USU may be the most vulnerable or all the Utah schools to receive a tuition hike next fall, according to Dee Broadbent, vice-president of business.
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Tuition may be ten to fifty dollars more per quarter if the higher education budget is c~t _by the Utah legislature . The dec1s1on will be made within the next few weeks. Utah State is ranked with the top five of weste~1: schools for highest in-state tu1t1on. It ranked among the lowest for out-of-state tuition. Hike Inevitable Broadbent feels that ii the state J egislature does not appropriate at least the $53 million requested
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by the Utah State Boa~d ?r Higher Education, then a hike m tuition is inevitable. As of 1970-71, all Utah residents are paying $438 per year and the out-of-state students are paying $942 per year. According to Broadbent, the gap between the student fees and the cost of running an institution of higher education is becoming increasingly wider, Utah is not the only state having financial problems within their educational system. In fact, approximately 70 perc~nt o~ !he colleges and umvers1ttes throughout the United States are being hit by this financial struggle . Burden on Taxpayers? Broadbent feels that the question facing the ¡ state Legislature in Utah and all states, is whether we want a public educational institutional with a composite student body that helps support itself or are we to shift the burden or support back onto the ti:t.x. ~payers.
may house pool facility The PE building may include a swimming pool after all . The Aoorooriations Subcommittee on High,er Education has approved an additional appropri a ti on of $350,000 tor the inclusion of a swimming pool to the new PE building . The report which has passed the UtahHouse ofRepresenta~iv~s and is now in the Senate, 1s m addition to the $750,000 ap-
pr;h~ia st~ela:~ii:i~~ board said that the low bid last year was $S90,000, an d that six . months later the bid had risen to $l,Ol2,000. Both bids were too hi~~ -e increase is attributed to rise in the cost of materials and workers wages. f1The board described the planned facil!t!es as having the bare necessities with "no frills." Swimming Team With the pools in the planning state it is anticipated that . U~ State will again compete m mtercollegiate swimming . Assistant Athletic director "Nog" Hansen said tha,t it "'.'as the Athletic departments pohcy when the old pool was torn down , that as soon as a new pool was built that the university would organize a swimming team . Hansen added that he thought that it would be at least two years before a team could be organize~ . He stated that it would take this long for the pools to be built_ and for the department to organize a team . City Pool Used Since the closing of the pool in the Smart Gym the University has been using the Logan City Municipal pool to conduct swimming classes . Presently swimming classes are taught at night. the new pools may make the classes available during day hours.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE - Tina McMurdi _e celebrates Washington 's birthday in style. Her mini-dress of one dollar bills is worth over $100.
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Proposes 'ecological model' "Utah State should grow its own food supply," said Tom Lyon, professor in English, addressing a group of some 40 members of Earth People Thursday night. Lyon, one of the founders o!Ea~th People, was advocating the Uruvers1~ as an ecological model. He said organic production of food for the campus cafeterias should be one of the facets of the model. Main Points
Other facets of the model stressed by Lyon include the use of unleaded .gas for University vehicles, responsible building programs and a two-year Ecological Education Program as an option for General Education requirement courses. USU planning officials, Vern Hancock and Grant Carling, representativ~ of the American Oil Company also spoke at the meeting. Hancok presented proposals on recycling and traffic problems, and Carling discussed switching of the University motor pool from gas to propane. Eco-Consciousness
Lyon said the University should be thoughtful and responsible in !t's functions, especially those concernmg the environment. "This university should grow its own food supply. Healthy and natural fertilization methods should be practiced. A variety of cropping should
be maintained and organic gardening on a large scale should be practiced ," he -said. Commenting on the building program at -USU, Lyon noted, "Don_'t automatically think that growth 1s good. As building, goes on the administration admits that student number will eventually come to a plateau . Something must be do!1eab~ut irresponsible growth at the uruvers1ty, we should determine what is really needed on campus in terms of the environment." UnleadGas
Another contributing factor to the problems we have in our environment at Utah State Lyon said, concerns transportation.' "The simplest thing the university could do would be to use unleaded gas in its vehicles . Turn the auto mechanic shops into a type of research area where people may research such things as using propane fuel in modern automobiles, " Lyon said. Lyon mentioned the possibility of having a two-year course in Ecology that would take place of the General Education requirements , Ecological Education
The curricula would last for two years (six quarters) and would consist of 5 hours a week in the classroom . The students would study Ecology and how itis realted to such subjects as biology, history phy~iology , philsophy, English '. and related fields.